Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269602AbUICLEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:04:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269614AbUICLEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:04:13 -0400 Received: from relay.pair.com ([209.68.1.20]:13075 "HELO relay.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269602AbUICLEK (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:04:10 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 66.188.111.210 Message-ID: <41384FA7.9040509@cybsft.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 06:04:07 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Alfaro Solana , Daniel Schmitt , Lee Revell , Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com, "P.O. Gaillard" Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0 References: <20040902063335.GA17657@elte.hu> <20040902065549.GA18860@elte.hu> <20040902111003.GA4256@elte.hu> <20040902215728.GA28571@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20040902215728.GA28571@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 34 Ingo Molnar wrote: > i've released the -R0 patch: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0 > > ontop of: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/diff-bk-040828-2.6.8.1.bz2 > > i've given up on the netdev_backlog_granularity approach, and as a > replacement i've modified specific network drivers to return at a safe > point if softirq preemption is requested. This gives the same end result > but is more robust. For the time being i've fixed 8193too.c and e100.c. > (will fix up other drivers too as latencies get reported) > > this should fix the crash reported by P.O. Gaillard, and it should solve > the packet delay/loss issues reported by Mark H Johnson. I cannot see > any problems on my rtl8193 testbox anymore. > > Ingo > Last night when rebooting on R0 for the first time, my system locked up. It appears to have happened the first time trying to send/recv any real data over the e100 interface when ntp was starting up. Will try to investigate further a little later. kr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/